Andrzej Cichocki

Professor Andrzej Cichocki graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, where he obtained his Doctor of Science degree (Habilitation) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1982 and received prestigious Alexander Humboldt and DFG Fellowships in Germany in 1984-1994.

Currently he is working in the area of artificial intelligence and biomedical applications of advanced data analytics technologies and has a wide international recognition. Prof Cichocki served as a Senior Team Leader and Head of the Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, the leading research organization in Japan and also holds a position of Visiting Professor in several universities in Japan, China and in the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Science.

Professor Cichocki is a holder of numerous patents and software developments and author of frequently cited and well-known publications and 6 monographs in English. According to Scopus, he has h-index 52 with more than 11300 citations and according to Google Scholar he has h-index 83 with more than 36000 citations. Dr. Cichocki is a winner of numerous awards and prizes for his scientific achievements, awards for best conference presentations and best journal publications, e.g., recently presented work in the ICONIP (2015) and journal papers published in Entropy (2014 and 2015).

Under the guidance of Professor Cichocki the new Laboratory “Tensor Networks and Deep Learning for Applications in Data Mining” is established at SKOLTECH. It won the fifth competition for the Russian Federation Government grants for state support in 2017-2019 of scientific research conducted under the supervision of leading scientists at Russian universities and scientific organizations (“Megagrant”) with the total funding 90 million Rubles. The mission of the Laboratory is to perform cutting-edge research in the design and analysis of deep neural networks, tensor decomposition , tensor networks and multiway component analysis with many biomedical applications.

Received doktorat honoris causae in Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK), Torun, Poland in 2017.

The best paper award in Journal Entropy in 2015
for the paper “Generalized Alpha-Beta Divergences and their Application to Robust Nonnegative Matrix Factorization” Entropy 2011, 13(1), 134–170; doi:10.3390/e13010134 http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/2/882/htm

The Best paper award in Journal Entropy for 2014 for the paper couthored by Andrzej Cichocki and Shun-ichi Amari,
“Families of Alpha- Beta- and Gamma- Divergences: Flexible and Robust Measures of Similarities”